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I cannot enlarge it any more as it would pixelate and make it even harder to read. You can see why I thought it was a 25 or 26 but I can now see your 29 and the bottom line of Kingstanding. Quite a long route and a surprise to a non-bus person like myself as I imagined most routes to start and...

Ta very much - I knew you would come up trumps with the bus info. Gold star in the post.

This is No.162

This is where threads go adrift, or get confusing ... Lyn posted her Old Guy pic question on this thread but the pub was in Digbeth. I replied saying that the closest pic I have is No.62 because I was trying to answer her question/query. However, I was referring to No.62 Digbeth which was a very...

Ding Ding .... a previously unpublished bus photo. Any info gratefully received .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/high-street-deritend-bus.htm

Anyone fancy some dodgy second-hand tyres ..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/high-street-deritend-tyre-shop.htm

Cheers Viv, though I must mention I didn't provide information on every pub in the book, only the houses which Andy was stuck on and asked for some help.

At long last, the follow-up to the 2005 tome is due out on March 22nd. Poor Andy, he has had to keep updating the text as bulldozers removed buildings he had discussed. On several occasions I had to e-mail him to let him know that a building had vanished. Er, you may find me in the credits as I...

Without going into the environmental or political arguments, can I just stick my head above the parapet to discuss some practical issues. Back in the day we used to be able to travel from the Black Country straight into New Street. This was changed years ago and now we have to use Snow Hill or...

The nearest I have got Lyn is No.62 ... close, but not close enough. One day maybe .....

Pubs in a small section of High Street Deritend. Map extract is dated 1900 but the Nelson had gone by then, soon to be followed by others ....

Shopping in the 1880s .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/high-street-deritend-shops.htm

Over a decade since this post but better late than never. I have posted an illustration of this home at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/high-street-deritend/index.html#Birmingham-Working-Boys-Home has anybody seen a photograph of the building?

Crayon envy ... I haven't crayoned for decades!

Another lesser-known photograph of the Old Crown Inn from the period when it was operated by Ansell's in the 1930s .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/high-street-deritend-old-crown-1935.htm

I realise there are zillions of photographs of this building but, hopefully, this is one that may not have been seen before. The image is taken from a magic lantern slide dated 1907. The slide was filthy and cracked so it took me about three hours to make it presentable ...

I am trying to compile a list of people included on my site to make it easier for browsers to find ancestors. I only include a name in this directory if I have typed something about the individual or have included a newspaper article. There are, of course, thousands of more names buried in the...

I was looking through a copy of Sketchley's trade directory published in 1767 [the earliest record of trades etc. in a directory] for Deritend. And then I thought I could type up a list that would be useful for others. I don't think this is available elsewhere as a listing. I have only got up to...

It's been there years!

I have a pic in one of my boxes but I can confirm that it only had timbers around windows and the three prominent dormer/gables. The ground floor was stone, brick and glass so that is not the one.